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***** CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION *****
(Submission Deadline: October 4, 2006)
2007
INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
May
19-23, 2007
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver,
Canada
www.irma-international.org
CONFERENCE THEME: Managing Worldwide
Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Submission
Deadline: October 4, 2006
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: November 24,
2006
Final Submission Due: January 10, 2007
Early Registration Ends:
January 10, 2007
Conference Period: May 19-23, 2007
LOCATION:
A
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was voted the "Best City in the Americas" for 2004 and 2005
by Condé Nast
Traveler magazine, based on the categories of ambience, friendliness, culture
and sites, restaurants, lodging, and shopping.
Vancouver offers a wide range
of architectural styles, from historic sites, to ultra modern, from the truly
unusual to very Vancouver unique. With its
temperate climate and soft,
plentiful rains, gardens, parks and green spaces can be found all around
Vancouver, enhancing its already natural beauty
of mountains and ocean.
Shopping in Vancouver offers visitors a diverse range with high fashion
boutiques, designer label, accessory and jewelry
stores, to extensive
shop-til-you-drop malls offering something for everyone. For more information on
this fascinating cosmopolitan city, please visit
http://www.tourismvancouver.com.
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TRACKS
AND TRACK (CO-)CHAIRS:
Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals,
and panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium proposals are invited in the
following 49 tracks of IRMA2007 International:
***Accounting Information
Systems***
Paul Lajbcygier, Monash University,
Australia
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***Business Process
Management***
Joseph Barjis, Georgia Southern University,
USA
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Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1,
Sorbonne, France
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***Customer Relationship
Management Systems***
Takao Ito, Ube National College of Technology,
Japan
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Kevin Voges, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand
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***Data Warehousing and
Mining***
Andrew Kusiak, The University of Iowa,
USA
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Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan,
Dearborn, USA
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***Database Management
Technologies***
Jakov Crnkovic, University at Albany (SUNY),
USA
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Sagarmay Deb, University of Ballarat,
Australia
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***Decision Support
Technologies***
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor,
Slovenia
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Mikael Wiberg, Umea University,
Sweden
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***Distance Learning
Technologies***
Yair Levy, Nova Southeastern University,
USA
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Michelle Ramim, Nova Southeastern University,
USA
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***E-Business Research***
Nir Kshetri, The Univ.
of North Carolina—Greensboro, USA
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In Lee, Western
Illinois University, USA
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***E-Collaboration***
Ned
Kock, Texas A&M International University,
USA
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Antonio Padilla-Meléndez, University of Malaga,
Spain
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***Electronic Commerce Technologies
Management***
S. Ann Becker, Florida Institute of Technology,
USA
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Fang Zhao, RMIT University,
Australia
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***Electronic Government
Research***
Pamela Abbott, University College Dublin,
Ireland
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Matthew Guah, University of Warwick,
United Kingdom
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***Enterprise Information
Systems***
Chandra Amaravadi, Western Illinois University,
USA
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Sushil Sharma, Ball State University,
USA
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***Geographic Information Systems***
Mehdi
Khosrow-Pour, Information Resources Management Association,
USA
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***Global IT Management***
Nabeel
Al-Qirim, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab
Emirates
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Felix B. Tan, AUT University, New
Zealand
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***Human Computer Interaction***
Maria
Suzana Marc Amoretti, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil,
Brazil
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Thomas Stafford, University of
Memphis, USA
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***Human Side of IT***
Anabela
Sarmento, Instituto Politécnico do Porto,
Portugal
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Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort
University, United Kingdom
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***Information
Communication Technologies***
Antonio Cartelli, Università degli Studi di
Cassino, Italy
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***Information Ethics and Intellectual
Property Issues***
Marian Quigley, Monash University,
Australia
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***Information Quality
Management***
Latif Al-Hakim, University of Southern Queensland,
Australia
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***Information Security
Management***
Parviz Partow-Navid, California State University, Los Angeles,
USA
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Ludwig Slusky, California State
University, Los Angeles, USA
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***Information
Systems Research***
Ovsei Gelman, CCADET-UNAM,
Mexico
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Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of
Aguascalientes, Mexico
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***Information Technology
Education***
Moh’d Radaideh, Human Resources General Directorate, ADP, United
Arab Emirates
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Lawrence Tomei, Robert Morris
University, USA
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***Intelligent Information
Technologies***
Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University,
USA
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Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of
Westminster, United Kingdom
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***IRM in
Government***
Calvin Chan, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
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***IT and Supply Chain
Management***
Rasool Azari, University of Redlands,
USA
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***IT Business Value***
Jerzy
Kisielnicki, Warsaw University, Poland
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***IT
Evaluation Methods and Management***
Katy Campbell, University of Alberta,
Canada
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Heather Kanuka, Athabasca University,
Canada
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***IT Global Sourcing***
Mehdi Ghods,
The Boeing Company, USA
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***IT in Small
Business***
Sathasivam Mathiyalakan, University of Massachusetts Boston,
USA
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***IT Management in Developing
Countries***
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo,
Egypt
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***IT Management in Healthcare***
Teemu
Paavola, LifeIT Plc, Finland
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Kari Mäkelä,
Tampere University of Technology,
Finland
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***Knowledge Management***
Murray
Jennex, San Diego State University,
USA
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***Managing Electronic
Communication***
Thomas Jackson, Loughborough University, United
Kingdom
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***Mobile Computing and
Commerce***
Margherita Pagani, Bocconi University,
Italy
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***Multimedia Information
Management***
Waleed Farag, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
USA
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Sanwar Ali, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
USA
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***Portal Technologies and
Applications***
Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University,
Australia
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***Project Management and
IT***
Daniel Brandon, Christian Brothers University,
USA
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George Ditsa, UAE University, United Arab
Emirates
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Abdul Sami Kazi, VTT-Technical Research
Center of Finland, Finland
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David Bryde, Liverpool
John Moores University, United Kingdom
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***Radio
Frequency Identification***
Angappa Gunasekaran, University
of
Massachusetts, USA
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***Semantic
Web***
Wen-Chen Hu, University of North Dakota,
USA
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Jinyoul Lee, State University of New York at
Binghamton, USA
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***Social Responsibility in the
Information Age***
Donald Amoroso, Appalachian State University,
USA
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Michael Knight, Appalachian State University,
USA
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***Software Engineering
Technologies***
Vivekanand Kochikar, Infosys Technologies Ltd.,
India
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***Software Process Improvement***
Jack
Cook, Rochester Institute of Technology,
USA
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Subhasish Dasgupta, George Washington
University, USA
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***Strategic IT
Management***
Perry Sadorsky, York University,
Canada
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Petros Theodorou, Athens University,
Greece
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***Telecommunications and Networking
Technologies***
Hao Lou, Ohio University, USA
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Norman
Pendegraft, University of Idaho, USA
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***Text
Database, Document Management and Web Content Management***
Len Asprey,
Practical Information Management Solutions Pty Ltd,
Australia
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***Unified Modeling Language and
Unified Process***
Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås,
Sweden
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***Universities and Online
Education***
Mila Gasco, International Institute on Governance,
Spain
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Teresa Torres, Universidad Rovira I Virgili,
Spain
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***Virtual Organizations and
Society***
Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan Asaari, Universiti Sains Malaysia,
Malaysia
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Noorliza Karia, Universiti Sains Malaysia,
Malaysia
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***Web Technologies and
Applications***
Liliane Esnault, EM LYON,
France
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SUBMISSION
CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES:
Submissions for the 2007 IRMA International
Conference may be submitted in the following categories (all submissions will
undergo a double-blind, peer review by at least three external expert
reviewers):
***Full Length Submissions: ***
Those individuals
interested may submit a full length (no more than 4000 words, including
references and title page, with a maximum of 5 figures/tables), original, and
previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscript for review
and decision by October 4, 2006. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings in their entirety (no more than 4000 words) OR as a 3000
word mini-paper, as recommended by the reviewers. High quality papers will be
considered for further review and possible inclusion in an IRMA official
journal. In addition, the best paper in terms of quality and suitability to the
theme of the conference will be awarded the “Best Paper”
Award.
***Research-in-Progress Submissions: ***
Those individuals
interested may submit research-in-progress proposals or a summary of tentative
results of the study to date in 500-1000 words by October 4, 2006. Authors of
accepted research-in-progress proposals will then be asked to forward a paper
(no more than 2,000 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables) by January 10,
2007 for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
***Panel, Workshop,
Tutorial and Symposium Submissions: ***
Individuals interested in conducting
a panel, workshop, symposium or tutorial dealing with technological, managerial,
professional, teaching, societal, national or international issues of
information technology management are invited to submit a 500-1000 word proposal
covering the objectives, issues to be covered, and the names/addresses of any
other panel, workshop, tutorial/symposium members. Method of presentation is at
the submitter’s discretion; however, the submitter has the responsibility for
providing his/her own participants (such as panel members). All accepted
proposals will appear in the conference proceedings. (Note: All panel, workshop,
tutorial/symposium members must register and pay for the conference.) Panel
presenters should know that during the conference, an LCD projector, screen and
laptop computer will be provided by the association for each presentation. Any
additional equipment needed for the panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium is at
the discretion of the presenter, and it will be his or her responsibility to
provide the extra equipment.
SUBMISSIONS IN ALL CATEGORIES MUST FOLLOW
THESE GUIDELINES:
(All submissions must be received by October 4,
2006.)
1. Manuscripts must not exceed 4000 words for full length
submissions; 500-1000 words for research-in-progress summary/proposals; and 1000
words for panel, workshop, tutorial and symposium proposals.
2. Must be
submitted through the IRMA2007 web-based review system. (A link for this system
will be provided at a later date.)
3. Submitted papers must not currently be
under review by any other publication or conference.
4. The number of
submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a
maximum of two submissions.
********** NEW SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
THIS YEAR!!!! ************
IRMA will be using a web-based submission and
review process for all manuscripts submitted to IRMA2007. A link will be
available at a later date for all manuscripts submitted to the
conference.
ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS:
Authors of accepted papers (at least
one person per submission), panel, workshop, tutorial session chairs and panel
members MUST register and attend the conference.
SEND ALL INQUIRIES
TO:
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, program chair, IRMA2007 International
Conference
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IRMA MEMBERSHIP
To learn
more about IRMA membership benefits and services, or to join IRMA, please visit
IRMA’s Web site at
www.irma-international.org.
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